Shop Time

During the past few months, Ed has been busy at the shop cutting a reproduction barn frame for a client.  The original barn fell in a Nor’Easter, and we salvaged as much as we could.  We will re-use much of the bracing, an upper gable, and a front gable drive post that has a large…

Barn Assessments

New England is peppered with antique barns in various states of disrepair, and saving them is central to our mission.  Timber-framed barns are icons of the New England landscape.  They connect us to our agrarian and architectural history and contain centuries of embodied energy.  But many other books, such as Field Guide to New England…